Nearly three years in the making, Astor presents his "Just Name It" close-up card magic mystery project.
Each of these powerful named-card routines offers a clever use of a red-backed jumbo indexed prediction card and blue-backed normal indexed deck.
In the Pocket
You show there is a singular prediction card in your pocket. They then name a card, which is taken out from the deck and dropped face up on the table. This prediction perfectly matches their named card. No forces or equivoque.
Reversed
A single face-down card among a face-up spread perfectly matches the card named by a volunteer.
Inserted
This bonus effect offers a bit of variety on the first two. Your volunteer inserts the prediction card face-down into the face-up deck. Impossibly, the card it ends up next to is a perfect match.
I have known Astor for many years, and I have always thought that his creations were incredibly straight-forward in effect and diabolical in the explanations and workmanship! His new Just Name It is no exception and may be one of the finest card effects ever. When I first saw the performance videos of the 3 effects included, I was flabbergasted! Later, when I learned the secret, I was in admiration of the cleverness of the working. You predict any card named in an incredibly direct manner. I will let those performance videos speak for themselves. They are exactly what the audience sees. Besides doing 'Just Name It', you will also be learning come clever principles that, with a good thinking mind, you can put to practice in other ways. I give my highest recommendation to Astor's Just Name It. It is a startling, direct, and incomprehensible miracle!" Richard Osterlind